Seven Seeds for Policing

I first described “Seven Seeds for Policing” at the annual meeting of the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington, DC…

How to Rate Police: Some Questions

My first book, How to Rate Your Local Police, was published by the Police Executive Research Forum in 1983. It was a…

You probably did a double-take on the title of this blog – the Joy of Policing! But I am serious.…

UPSTREAM-DOWNSTREAM Once upon a time there was a fishing village along a mighty river. The villagers there were a fine,…

MANY YEARS AGO, I was a young police officer, just out of the academy. My partner and I, also a…

The Power of Police Subculture An Excerpt From “Arrested Development” “Years ago as a young police officer, I remember finding…

The department that I headed for over 20 years is coming under attack regarding the shooting of an unarmed intoxicated…

Being moral is to make good choices between right and wrong or good and bad actions. It applies to both…

One day in the life of a city in the Midwest, a young man was shot. Throughout the years, this…

Shortly before I retired, I remember discussing the racial disparity in arrests we were experiencing with my assistant, Noble Wray…